Pixidou – an Open Source AJAX Image Editor (PHP and YUI based)

Pixidou is a new open source AJAX image editor which will allow you to :

adjust brightness
adjust contrast
cropping
flipping
negative
resizing
rotating
tint

images.

AJAX image cropper with YUI and PHP

This post will show you how to build an AJAX crop image tool using the image cropper control from YUI library and PHP.
Demo
Download sample file

Show/hide containers by only adding CSS classes without writing javascript code (YUI-based)

This post will show you how to add the collapse/expand functionality in your HTML pages, perfect for FAQs by only adding two class names to your existing page and including the scripts below. Of course it’s all YUI-based and also a demo of the fantastic YUI selector utility.
Demo of the toggler
Download the javascript file

nouzil.com – a new Mauritian portal on the web (YUI-based)

I came to know the existing of a new Mauritian portal via Avinash called nouzil (which means our island in creole) and I must say at first look it reminds me of Netvibes a lot. I think the nouzil.com team picked up some bits and pieces from Netvibes.com.

YUI-based alert box – replace your ugly javascript alert box

This tutorial will explain how you can override the default alert box of your browser, without modifying your existing code and by adding 2 lines of javascript code.
Demo of the alert box
Download javascript file

f-lv.com – download YouTube videos in FLV/MP4/3GP format

After playing with the YouTube API and Python over the past week, I’am pleased to announce the launch of f-lv.com
You will be able to :

download your favorite YouTube videos in FLV/MP4 format
email the video download link to your friend
have a look at a nice carousel (thanks Bill for that) with the latest downloaded videos

Add RSS feeds to your website

Adding a RSS feed to your website has never been this easy with PHP, especially with MagpieRSS.

Geolocate your visitors with PHP (part 2)

In the first part of this series I showed how you could get the country of a visitor via his IP address. Now with this precious information, I’ll show you how to map the visitor visually on the world map using Google Maps.
Sample preview.

SEO friendly URL in PHP

When I started implementing mod_rewrite in websites I had a problem in PHP as how to make a SEO friendly URL. All tutorials were geared towards how to implement mod_rewrite, about modifying .htaccess files, but none treated how to make the urls friendly with dynamic content. For example I have a news section which are [...]

Expanding/collapsing javascript menu

In this post I’ll show you how to create an expanding/collapsing menu like Slashdot left menu used to be, using the YUI library and Dav Glass YUI effects widget.
Preview of the script we are going to build.